Blogs from Los Santos, Panama, Central America Caribbean

Yesterday, we took our lives in our hands and drove from Panama City to Pedasi, a fishing village of about 2000 people on the south (Pacific) coast. We were able to rent from National at the domestic airport near the canal, so didn't have to drive through the city -- a good point for anyone doing this. We also drove across the Centennial Bridge, not the Bridge of the Americas -- much less traffic. Although Panamanian drivers can be aggressive, they are generally good-natured and better drivers than the amateur NASCAR drivers we encounter in East Tennessee. Driving anywhere in Panama displays the enormous economic boom taking place -- building everywhere! As we moved along the coast, we saw billboard after billboard inviting us to buy land, homes or condos in fancy developments. If all these ... read more

Hi. It´s day 1 of the World Junior Surf Champs in Playa Venao, Panama. Today they started with the boys under 16 / 18´s. Melodie´s heat will be tomorrow. Me I am sitting in the departure lounge of San Jose Airport, Costa Rica as I couldn´t get into Panama with my passport which expires next month. They require a 6 month passport so I was turned back at the border between Costa Rica and Panama which was more like El Paso. Anyway more details later on the adventures of travelling. Just wanted to share this foto with you also don´t forget that you can watch the events live on http://dakineisawjsc.com/live/ un saludo, Caroline... read more

Hola, Greetings from Pedasi, Panama. We are in the southern-most part of Panama on the eastern coast of the Azuero Penincula. We drove 6 hours yesterday stopping along the way to check out some beach communities. We are going to try to decide which ones we would like to investigate further on the way back to Panama city. Last night we stayed at a neat little place called Dim's Hostel. But I think they should drop the Hostel name and go with hotel, cause it was much nicer than I had pictured from the word hostel. The highlight of the property is a huge tree in the back yard with a tiled roof palapa. We spent the evening just talking and swinging in the hammocks. Today we are going to check out some of the beach ... read more

The RV ran fine to the oil change place, so we decided it was time to pack up and go. We said our goodbyes, loaded up and we were off. She ran alright for awhile but when we reached los santos, started complaining as before. The difference now was that we weren’t even on a hill, and it was much more frequent stuttering. We stalled on a flat road outside the Mcdonalds in Chiquiri. Well, we needed a mechanic. There was supposedly a brand new shop on the bypass route, not far from where we were, so we went to find it, and proceeded to explain the problem to one of the guys that worked there. This place had all sorts of fancy machines, and so we thought great maybe they can help us. As it ... read more

(Allyne) Sorry to all, we have been relaxing for the past week in a lovely beach house on Uvirita beach.... our destination in Panama. I was reminded for the 10th time to do the blog.... so here are the details. We crossed the boarder into Panama, with little confusion. All by ourselfs again, no boarder jockeys! exiting CR wasent a problem, but I had to insist that the agriculture guy to give us an exit stamp for troopers papers, he said i did not need it, but i thought it would be better for our return trip. When we pull up to the Panama boarder (with Trooper in the co pilot seat) I had many people asking if we had a licence for him. ... Turns out you need a licence to bring a dog into ... read more